How is Japan able to economically sustain itself with a debt to GDP ratio of over 250%

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Whilst simultaneously having a rapidly declining birth rate, and relatively low levels of immigration, to maintain a homogeneous society, without imploding in on itself?

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How is Japan able to economically sustain itself with a debt to GDP ratio of over 250%? [That’s the neat thing, they can’t!](https://youtu.be/se17_0zbZds?si=Enz8g56YsnFtj9C7).

Nations are the _definition_ of “too big to fail”. Hell, the US’s national debt is sitting at around 30% of _all money in the entire world_. (US debt: ~30 trillion, World GDP (2022): ~101 trillion)

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